Earwig invites you to listen, to put out feelers, to scurry.
Somewhere in Europe, mid-20th century. Albert is employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice. Mia never leaves their apartment, where the shutters are always closed. The telephone rings regularly and the Master enquires after Mia’s wellbeing. Until the day Albert is instructed that he must prepare the child to leave...
The beat and rhythm are often deliberately relentless, pushing onwards even when sometimes going around in circles - as circular as arguments that the characters find themselves having to make over and over again.
Adaptation of the director's play about racial injustice.
The setting may be current and sound edgy on paper but beneath the zeitgeist veneer, the mainstream thriller formula they employ is as familiar as your slippers.
A spy who has infiltrated an eco-terrorist group, finds her loyalties tested.
There’s a particularity about this place that is etched into the screen.
After the death of her husband, Tabatha - a young, tattooed, rebellious horse trainer - wrestles with financial insecurity and unresolved grief while providing refuge for a group of wayward teenagers on her broken-down ranch in the Badlands.
This is an example of the growing tendency for indigenous people to regain control over their own cultural narratives and set about trying to communicate them to the wider world.
On Easter Island, the most isolated community in the Pacific uses lessons learned from their past to solve environmental and social challenges brought on by booming tourism and rapid development.
The framing of the atrocities of war through the eyes of an innocent is a tried and tested device – perhaps a little too much so – and there’s nothing particularly new about it here
A fictionalised take on the massacre of Kalavryta in which a survivor tells his tale decades after the fact.
This is immersive filmmaking, intense and absorbing all the way up to its unexpected ending.
While escaping from the police, Óliver accidentally stumbles into a flat and saves Lóa’s life. The pair are both
users and dealers, but want nothing more than to escape and start a new life. However, the situation becomes considerably more complicated when they decide to use stolen narcotics from an infamous drug lord to fund their escape plans.
This is a talky affair designed to move away from the original BBC six-parter's cold-war paranoia in favour of a Michael Clayton-style corporate cover up.
A former detective uncovers his daughter's secret life and the reasons why people want her dead.
Director Andrew Gilbert ladles on the grimness, shooting among weather-worn 1970s concrete blocks under looming grey skies, his characters covered in grime and bruises.
A young man surviving by himself years after the Earth has been devastated by nuclear war finds his orderly life thrown into chaos when he encounters other survivors.
As the film’s themes darken, so do the initially bright landscapes, and the colours of Evie’s clothes fade. This creates something of a sense that the characters are slipping backwards into a troubled past.
A girl makes a friend while on holiday with her mum but when the boy shows her an abandoned tin mine what they hear there leads to trouble above ground.
The visual changes to Adiits'ii subtle enough to be believable and effective, even on a restricted budget, and rest on an impressively physical performance from York.
When tragedy strikes in a small community, a man becomes a tormented soul in the woods.
Loginov lets the city drift in and out of focus until dusk and dawn blur, and night stops feeling like a time of day and becomes a state of mind.
As the sun sets, director Vladimir Loginov takes audiences to a Tallinn far from the postcard-perfect spires of the medieval Old Town. Venturing into its hidden underbelly, he reveals complex realities and vibrant subcultures.
Haussman can't quite decide between vérité and romance, ending up with an awkward middle ground.
The story of James Brooke, who defied the British Empire to rule a jungle kingdom in 1840s Borneo, and embarked on a lifelong crusade to end piracy, slavery and head-hunting.
Though Kinnaman works hard in the role and does convince, it's the teenage Holland who steals the show.
A father takes his sons out into the wilds to make them into men, but things go awry when he realises their mother and stepfather are planning to take them away.
Despite its overtly artificial structure, the film captures something that feels very natural, spending time with its subjects until they’re completely at ease.
A portrait of two South Korean women in transition: Edhi, a modest and cheerful woman who hopes to feel good in her own body after her surgery, and Alice, a quiet personality who is at a different stage in her life and her transition.
Making a band work isn’t easy when your mother gives you a strict curfew, your headmistress thinks punk is Satanic, and you don’t have any instruments.
A timid dork accidentally takes the spotlight when she starts a punk band with her fellow 'turds', becoming an icon to the rest of the losers at her all-girls Catholic school while managing to piss off the hot girls, the nuns, and a horny altar boy.
McQueen builds his scathing criticism of the 1970s British school system in layers. Resembling the 'beautiful spiral constellation of Andromeda' that set the little protagonist dreaming, the film returns to the diverging realities and tropes.
When 12-year-old Kingsley is transferred to a special-needs school, a group of West Indian women uncover an unofficial segregation policy.
By contrasting an artificial man with the real but unsubtly false men and women of the world and their queer existences, Burton presents satire with a dull thud.
An intrepid Avon lady enters her local Gothic castle to find a lonely young home-made man with scissors for hands.
The bond they have feels real and lived-in, their conversations full of the shorthand which develops over time between people who share almost everything.
A young Asian American girl and her hapless best friend hit the road to go and meet her online crush.
Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school - the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year - before she begins high school.
Austin Jennings builds up his story from little details whilst viewers are gripped by the tension between the three leads.
At the breaking point of their dysfunctional marriage, a couple take a trip through Serbia. After meeting a mysterious local who eagerly offers to be their guide, they embark on an impromptu sightseeing expedition that soon takes a series of sinister turns.
In the late 1800s, a man arrives in a remote country village to investigate an attack by a wild animal but discovers a much deeper, sinister force that has both the manor and the townspeople in its grip.
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